Definition of Graveness

1. Noun. A manner that is serious and solemn.

Exact synonyms: Gravity, Soberness, Sobriety, Somberness, Sombreness
Generic synonyms: Earnestness, Serious-mindedness, Seriousness, Sincerity
Specialized synonyms: Stodginess, Stuffiness
Derivative terms: Grave, Grave, Grave, Grave, Sober, Sober, Somber, Sombre

Definition of Graveness

1. n. The quality of being grave.

Definition of Graveness

1. Noun. The state of being grave; gravity ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Graveness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Graveness

graveless
gravelike
graveling
gravelled
gravellike
gravelliness
gravelling
gravelly
gravels
gravelweed
gravely
gravemarker
gravemarkers
graven
graven image
graveness (current term)
gravenesses
graveolence
graveolent
graver
graveries
graverobber
graverobbers
graverobbing
gravers
gravery
graves' disease
graveside
gravesides
gravesite

Literary usage of Graveness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign by James Wood (1893)
"Youth no less becomes / The light and careless livery that it wears, / Than settled age his sables and his weeds, / Importing health and graveness. ..."

2. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare, Walter Morris Hart (1917)
"My lord . . . graveness. These lines are not in F 1. 73. ... Importing health and graveness. Warburton proposed wealth, and Malone explained health as ..."

3. History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1857)
"In Ptolemy's Harmonics, the third Chapter of the first Book is entitled, ' How the acuteness and graveness of notes is produced;' and in this, after noting ..."

4. History of the Inductive Sciences: From the Earliest to the Present Times by William. Whewell (1837)
"In Ptolemy's Harmonics, the third Chapter of the first Book is entitled, " How the acuteness and graveness of notes is produced ;" and in this, after noting ..."

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